Posted by ST on August 11, 2002, at 16:19:57
In reply to Anyone figure out how to get off Effexor XR, posted by Huck326 on August 11, 2002, at 14:24:24
HI,
It took me three months to get off Effexor. GO SLOWLY. It is worth it. I had the capsules, but when I got down too low on the dosage, I had those 35 mg tablets that I started chipping away at as well as taking a few sprinkles out of the capsules. I went down to 35 mg, then a 1/4 of the tablet for a couple days. Then for a few days I went down to half a tablet. Then for a few days, I went to an eighth of a tablet and so on until I was chipping a small bit or taking just a few of the capsule sprinkles. On my last day taking Effexor, I probably put two capsule sprinkles on my tongue to dissolve. It got down to that. I literally felt like I had the flu for almost three months. My symptoms got worse on the days I tried to just stop cold turkey. I thought it was ludicrous that here I was chipping away at a tablet to get my Effexor "fix", but it worked.
Make sure you have some of the 35 mg. tablets as well as the capsules. Do it slowly and if you're as senstive to it as you sound, don't listen to anyone who says: "Just cut it out cold turkey and live with feeling strange for a few days!". No way.Good luck!
Sarah
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